Low Country Chapter – Dixie Plantation Butterfly Walk – August 23, 2014

It seems the Lowcountry CBS had a successful butterfly walk this past Saturday,
August 23. Dixie Plantation is located in Hollywood, SC, and has gardens,
wooded paths, and is located against salt marsh. We walked between 9 and 11:30
AM, and the weather was sunny and got up to 94*F while walking.

17 observers saw the following:

13 Cloudless Sulphur
1 Common Buckeye
6 Gulf Fritillaries
7 Horace’s Dusky Wing
2 Carolina Satyr
2 Red Banded Hairstreaks
5 Sleepy Orange
1 Gray Hairstreak
2 Wild Indigo
1 Least Skipper
2 Black Swallowtail (Female)
1 Silver Spotted Skipper
1 Red Spotted Purple
1 Hackberry Emperor
1 Tiger Swallowtail

Amanda Szwarc